Quotes from Douglas Kennedy

Success is a very fragile veneer. I get wary of people who embrace celebrity. It ruins people.

Because there is no meaning to be found in the arbitrary nature of things., It's all random. Just as space is blue. And birds fly through it.

I want to be a popular novelist who's also serious, or a serious novelist who's also very accessible.

NEVER UNDERESTIMATE THE way happenstance governs so much of human existence. Never underestimate how being in a certain place at a certain time changes the entire trajectory of things for you. Never underestimate the way we are all hostages to life's random rhythms.

To?i avem pove?ti pe care nu vrem s? le spunem.

At dawn, nothing seems certain... yet everything appears possible.

Is this what is meant by happenstance: the accidental, the unforeseen, the random music of circumstance and chance that might just send everything in your life down a wholly new path?

Most of us proceed with good intentions. We try our best. Yet so often we fail ourselves and others. What else can we do but try again? It's the only option open to us. Trying is the way we get through the day.

We all crave latitude in life, yet simultaneously dig ourselves deeper into domestic entrapment. We may dream of traveling light but accumulate as much as we can to keep us burdened and rooted to one spot.

A quel instant "pas maintenant" se transforme en "jamais

Beano, buying the Globe and Mail, the National Post, the Calgary

S'asseoir quelque part en compagnie de soi-même, soudain retranché de la confusion du monde, est aussi facile qu'essentiel.

Pero sea lo que sea, y aunque tomes la peor decisión imaginable, todo ello obedecerá básicamente a una sola razón: la esperanza. Que es un lujo al que todos tratamos de aferrarnos desesperadamente.

It's realizing that you've lived your life not thinking about this moment. Pretending that, somehow, you'll never have to face up to the biggest moment of them all – when you finally know that there is no future possibility for change, for exploring other options, for even dreaming about another life. When you can't even retreat into your fantasy about doing it all differently … because you've run out of road.

Un radar fonctionne quand un champ magnétique s'établit entre deux objets. Une force d'attraction, presque : un objet envoie un signal à l'autre, et ce qu'il reçoit en retour est l'"image" du deuxième, non l'objet lui-même.

Parisian arrogance meant that nobody was important, nobody counted.

Nuostabu, kaip tyl?jimas pažadina didžiausias baimes ir priver?ia tik?tis blogiausio.

there are certain tragedies from which we never recover. We may eventually adjust to the sense of loss that pervades every waking hour of the day. We may accept the desperate sadness that colors all perception. We may even learn to live with the loss. But it doesn't mean we will ever fully cauterize the wound or shut away the pain in some steel-tight box and consider it vanquished.

Vyrai dešimt kart? patrauklesni, kai tiktai klausosi.

We try so hard to put our mark on things, we like to tell ourselves that what we do has import or will last. But the truth is, we're all just passing through. So little survives us. And when we're gone, it's simply the memory of others that keeps our time here alive. And when they're gone... That's why - when I go - I'm asking that my dust gets tossed on the water. Because ends up floating away.

Et de m'avoir mise face à cette réalité : personne n'est totalement équilibré, personne n'a de certitudes absolues. Il n'existe pas de vie parfaite.

But when you are engulfed in loss, how can you detach yourself in the transience of everything? How can I take a theoretically long view of things when every waking moment without Johannes is agony?

And most dreams can only be fulfilled by yourself. It's a bit like happiness: you can never depend on someone else for that elusive state of being. In the end we are all directly responsible for our own happiness... or lack thereof.

Fate is bound up in the music of chance.